WolframAlfa is my friend

It has been a long two weeks with exhausting exam revisions, hopeless attempts to memorise every slide of lectures, every book and every note. This again proved Student Syndrome Effect. Whole term one does nothing until the deadline is close, and then tries to cram everything in ever shrinking temporary memory with enough lifecycle to get through the exams.

Anyway, so far three of exams are over, one to go. During which WolframAlfa finally was launched, Google came up with squared and was making waves, and now Microsoft is trying to join the battle with Bing.com, while hyped up Swine Flu is killing everyone and 47 million year old supposedly our ancestor monkey was re-re-re-discovered.

Back to Bing.com, not impressed. This blog with rather clever heading 'Bing? Insert "or" after B' says it all. The only useful and unique feature is the video search, where video playback activates on mouse roll-over, which eliminates the need to go the original website to watch the video.

WolframAlfa is in totally different level, if you ask it (him/her?) “Who are you?” it will respond “I am a computational knowledge engine.” This is the feature I am looking forward to see improve. For question “Are you clever?” it responds, modestly, “I am capable of universal computation; that I can say.”

The point is, eventually, this search engine will be able to interpret human with better AI and then we will say “WolframAlfa is my friend.”, unless Google does not fight back, that is.